Bob, Although I'm not a historian in the model field, much of HO was not much better than typical Flyer until quite recently. Those so called NMRA couplers,and the Mantua couplers were actually pretty gross looking, while the AF knuckle, despite being too large, looks realistic. The Athearn Baldwin had too wide a hood just like AF's version with too large a cab. AF flanges were too large but I've heard many stories about Rivorsii's (SP)flanges also.
Actually if Lionel would make a plastic floor similar to the Ace conversion floor for their 'house' cars, it would put them in a much better light. I can't imagine that both AF and Lionel haven't yet made enough profit for them to stick a few bucks into creating one--what's all that about reinvesting for the future that industry is suppose to be doing! Now let me put on my Public Relations hat and address what George has mentioned about "one upping" HO. Jim mentioned about creating an HO version of his car also, so that will be short lived. In fact since Jim doesn't believe in advertising, hardly anybody but us will even know about it! So already a golden opportunity to make S constantly more recognizable in our modeling world will just fade away. Bob Werre BobWphoto.com > It would be nice to tell them that their unrealistic representation of > the SAL car puts them in an HO "Hi-rail" category, wouldn't it? > > Bob Nicholson ______________________________________________ > > --- In [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>, > "gsc3" <gsc3@...> wrote: > > > > Oh, I forgot to add that messing with HO and N and O scale is my > movtivation. I want to be able to say, nah, nah, de nah-nah, you > aint't got one. I'm kidding, I'm kidding. > > > > George Courtney > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
